Search - Ocie Stockard :: Western Swing Chronicles, Vol. 3

This should be in your collection!

Nicole Hofmeister | Redlands, CA USA | 03/31/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If your knowledge of western swing starts at Big Sandy & stops at Bob Wills, you're off to a good start but you've got more to go. Along with the amazing Milton Brown & The Light Crust Doughboys, you've got Ocie Stockard and The Wanderers, surely my new favorite! With many of Milton Brown's boys backing him up the stand out musician is Harry Palmer. A trumpeter & vocalist with sure traces of Louis Armstrong in his horn & Jack Teagarden in his voice, this is his only session recorded & it is a bold session at that! His contribution to the first 14 tracks on this cd from 1937 contain more jazz than some players ever get across. His stand out track is Black & Blues (a thinly veiled 'What Did I Do To Be So Black & Blue') with his back alley vocal & his soulful low down horn. If this cd only had that track it'd be worth it, but with the entire recorded output of this band you surely can't miss here. This belongs right before Bob Wills and right after your Milton Brown in your cd collection. You wont be sorry."